Wire-walking madman savant Phillipe Petit’s stomach-flipping 400 meters-high tightrope trek between New York’s fabled Twin Towers in 1974 has already received the celebrated cinematic treatment in Man On Wire, James Marsh’ 2008 Oscar-winning documentary about Petit’s near superhuman “coup”. But now it’s the turn of Robert Zemeckis’ boisterous and spritely The Walk, a digitally magicked up retelling of that historic …

Believe it or not, but PE finally has an IMAX cinema. A proper, honest-to-your-deity venue for massive movies. And that’s something that I’m interested in, because I’ve never watched an IMAX movie. And dammit, I want the IMAX experience. I want a screen so big that it looks like it belongs to a section of the Great Wall of China. …

Now since I’m just a lowly South African guy who’s used to sweating in the holiday season heat, I’m definitely no expert, but I’m pretty sure that when people talk about having a white Christmas they’re referring to snow and not cocaine. Luckily for our entertainment though, Seth Rogen didn’t get that memo in The Night Before, the upcoming hilarious …

I’ve got an annual tradition. Near Christmas, I plop my ass down and watch anything starring Seth Rogen or James Franco. For the last two years, I’ve kind of been spoiled, having the two actors not only together but actually starring in some damn good comedy films in the form of This Is The End and The Interview. This year however, the …

Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” is one of the greatest comic book stories ever told. Following Dream aka Morpheus – the godlike personification of dreams, and a member of a race of all-powerful beings known as The Endless – “Sandman” is a sprawling tale of morality and mythology that ran for 75 issues over 7 years and is nothing short of epic. …

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I never suffered from vertigo as a child. I would launch myself off anything high enough to cause my parents to flinch just, well, because. Then I went on a road trip and ended up bungee jumping 217 meters into nooooothingnesss aaaaaand faaaaallliiiiing. Sorry, my palms are wetter than a Scottish 80’s soft-rock band right now. And based on that …

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: September 22, 2014